The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-06-12
JOSEPHINE H. RosA,s DEATH.
Iec,stendcr Day Sees uis Son Stab the
Woman 20 Death.


I,,crt,racr D,v Sees His Sen Stab the
Woman 60 Death.
UTICA. June 1O.-For about four months
Clement Arthur Day. the son OF Charles O.
Day tender Of Lock GO on the BLACK River
Canal, In tho town Of Boonville, has been living
with young woman named Josephine M.
Rosa, whose homo was in Coonradt, q small
village in tho town Of Rome. They became nc
qualntcd last winter, and formed mutual
liking for each other at once. On leaving the
young womans home In Coonradt they
went to Boonville and remained there q
short timo, going thence to Carthage and
STATE pSNi& aht before last they returned to
night Day recently learned that q warrant
had been sworn out by tho womans mother dpir
for hs sm S ihaS q bs
rs did the fear that Josephine would have TO
leave him and go back TO her mother: Both
yesterday morning could talk 0f little else.
According to young DAYS stSry thsy had raS sS
thsn bo and Rad yS
mum on hand to accomplish this end Day
looked ior j, early yesterday morning but
the iowpath together toward boonville. She
h hnd R Rss e sd 70
mother during tho forenoon. It is said. with
Day had been at work at the lock and saw tho
coming doEp tRS ey
large butcher knife which he, grasped in
hls right hand; and stab stab her n, I, t tho
@ofe stabs rapidly given; His Victim tisn fell
to the ad ne aver n cSr ana IN cnr
and extending from the breast to the lower
part Of the abdomen thinking she vas
the canal where It Goated around until tho
murderer dragged i out and concealed 1t In
witness to the horrible decd OF his son, graspod
the little boy in his arms and fled to the house,
fearing lest the murderer should also take their
Victim i into the thcket. threw Il into a sluice-
way, and covered It over with dead leaves,
ns se ST sR2 Ss sse q
remained undiscovered a long time. He then
Bury the body Of the young Woman that night;
thsoush tho woods Still carrying in his hand
the knife with which he committed the horri-
bio deed his aged father to the h9 Si%
Day ran some distance from the scene of tho
stapesa a S% osd Snd
to tho authorities Officers and citizens woro
Fa s. IsS s he5 bs after the wSS
th asG HI es out 81 the woods
sadsn FSps and ing Ma
stopped. and Superintendent Phillips walked
sop b HnS osa m h h saa
Int Philiips took Day in Charge, and
him in the lookup In Church street, where Con-
stable Hart guards him closely:
he Killed led tho Woman. He, said: People win
think ala do f vent theEr .r While n the the
II that was what he stabbed tho woman with:
He said No threT the knife into the slqGe
hoI; He said that the woman told him she she
had lived oHF enough and he thought she
askedsSe prisoner what he Would eiye Z he had
not committed the deed and he said: :. might
as well as net apa
1nd xo y a not III z 3 s sbeSs i've
about 140 pounds. he has black hair. q dark
S uner TOOK rnd matters az very coo fs
and did not seem ct all excited over the noisy
coneourse Of people outside Of The jaii al. Sitting
1as sSis u his ksces he pulled Of
cigar and conyersed freely. In speaking OF the
II Know they charge me with killing Josie.
and I don't attempt to deny 1t. and don't want
to deny 1t. / gave myself up. can't tell
done. / am quick tempered and shot myself
once. and have got the bullet In my head now.
That was ten OF, twelve years ago. have had
dyspepsa and lnng Diseases and have ne EYE
to pay and lots OF trouble. and never had any
friends. ! can read and write and figure q
little. Josie told mo last night that she wouldn't
rant rant business. They had warrant for me for
seduction from Rome. didn't care anything
about the warrant Il was this trouble that
bothered me. am telling you the facts of the
as they are: not because am simple.
II thought everything OF this woman. We
talked our trouble all over this morning. and
h was gooF to 10 TO-
her and settle the matter. She WAS kinder
downhearted. and wanted to get a bill Of d.
yorce from the man she was married to;
heT let fhssm Nj qe people eased i9
awful row all along, the limo Of the canal be-
cause we lived together. The way l got &C
quainted with Josie , WAS that ! was doing
the house. She has been with me since tho
down at the lock house. and calculated to
s he n1 Ssd and ml
laudanum; and had made up our minds to take
1t. but couldn't find it to-day. She didn't want
to live and 1 made up my mind that "a rather
matter over ever since heard the warrant was
out. The old lady Mrs. Rosal was bound that
the girl should go and live with man named
Emory, Josie said hundred times that she
had rather be dead than go back and live with
The murdered woman was about 80 years Of
age and quite good looking